quotations about survival
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.
NICK HORNBY
How to Be Good
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Wise Blood
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
JIM BUTCHER
Dead Beat
It is clear from the fossil record that almost every species that has ever existed is extinct; extinction is the rule, survival is the exception. And no species is guaranteed its tenure on this planet.
CARL SAGAN
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Survival ... it's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.
RACHEL CAINE
Total Eclipse
The Chain of Survival is only as strong as its weakest link.
ANTHONY BELLANO
"Moorestown Company Recognized For Heartsaving Efforts", Moorestown Patch, June 26, 2017
In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
TANITH LEE
"A House on Fire", Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead
The survival of the fittest.
HERBERT SPENCER
Principles of Biology
After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
The Lost World of 2001
A life reduced solely to concern for its own survival is the life of an ant or a ruminant.
VLADIMIR JANKELEVITCH
L'Impréscriptible
Only those who desire to live survive.
HIDEAKI ANNO & AKIO SATSUKAWA
Neon Genesis Evangelion
That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.
KEVIN BROCKMEIER
The View from the Seventh Layer
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
ROBERTO BOLAÑO
By Night in Chile
This is survival of the fittest
This is do or die
This is the winner takes it all
So take it all
EMINEM
"Survival"
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Heavenly Fire
The quest for survival is a struggle to maintain self-identity and self-determination. It is a struggle for bread and celebration.
DONALD W. MUSSER & JOSEPH L. PRICE
A New Handbook of Christian Theologians
Here's one to glory
And survival
And stayin' alive
It's the runnin' man's bible
I don't speak of the times I've nearly died
TOM PETTY
"Running Man's Bible"
Learning to walk again is not the hard part of survival; learning to live again is.
BRANDON J. WOLF
"Pulse victim: How I learned the meaning of survival", CNN, June 11, 2017
It is a tricky word. Survival can denote a fingertip emergence to catch breath among the forces that threaten to overwhelm us, or a triumphant bursting forth into new life.
BARBARA GLASSON
A Spirituality of Survival: Enabling a Response to Trauma and Abuse